Here you can find a selection of publications (monographs, anthologies, articles,…) of current and past staff of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V., often based on research projects or conferences. These are generally based on the collections within the archive.  (in alphabetical order) Inge Baxmann, Melanie Gruß, Sebastian Göschel, Vera Lauf (Hg.): Arbeit und Rhythmus: Lebensformen im Wandel. Wissenskulturen im Umbruch. Bd. 2. Eine Publikation des Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V., München: Wilhelm Fink 2009 Inge Baxmann (Hg.): Körperwissen als Kulturgeschichte. Die Archives Internationales de la Danse (1931-1952). Wissenskulturen im Umbruch. Bd. 2. Eine Publikation des Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V., München: K. Kieser 2008 Inge
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With the approval of the DFG the official founding of the NFDI4Culture was made possible and happened on the 1st of october 2020. The performing arts are represented within the different committees, panels and operating procedures by the chairmen of the society of theatre studies (gtw), the society for dance research (GTF), multiple associations (AG ARCHIV, THESID, VDT) as well as individual collections and archives. One of them is the dance archive Leipzig with the institute for theatre studies.   NFDI4Culture’s work programme consists of 6 task areas and the performing arts play a role in most of them:  TA1: Digitisation,
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The working group ARCHIVE was founded by Franziska Voss and Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi at the 13th congress of the society for theatre studies in Frankfurt am Main and Gießen in 2016. The objective was to strengthen the connections of the  archives with research and academic teaching. Archives of theatre, dance and performance are locations where artistic practice can be historically evaluated and researched in a source-critical way, but they are also influenced by the impulses of the artists themselves regarding forms of presentation, usage and accessibility. That is especially important for strategies of artistic research, reconstruction, re-enactments etc. contact
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A large number of meetings, symposia and conferences have already been organised for the exchange of specialist topics, questions and methods based on the holdings of Tanzarchiv Leipzig, which have always addressed the public interested in dance with special programme items and whose results are usually documented in publications. Dance in pictures – Plural constellations of Photography Virtual video conference from 28 – 30 January 2021 Perspectives of Digital Humanities in Dance and Theatre ResearchOnline workshop on 9 January 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Body/Politics: Dance forms, institutions and actors in the GDR (13 – 15 November 2014)
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Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. staff and members are available to advise on artistic projects, from initial ideas for dealing with the cultural heritage of dance to concrete enquiries about more complex research and possible academic advice and dramaturgical support for dance productions. Please send your enquiries about such offers up to project-related cooperations by e-mail to the following address: info@tanzarchiv-leipzig.de. Below you will find some exemplary projects from recent years in which individual members of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. were more or less directly involved or which were created in cooperation with TAL e.V.. Tanz Digital (2021) Evaluation of the Alliance
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As a dancer and choreographer, Lehmen is one of the most important contemporary dance artists in Germany. His publications Schreibstück (book and score for 3 groups each in canon form) and Funktionen-Toolbox (for communicative choreographies) attracted international attention. Born in Oberhausen in 1963, Lehmen studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 2010 he worked mainly in Berlin and developed numerous solos, group pieces and projects: among others distanzlos, mono subjects, Schreibstück, It’s better to…, Lehmen lernt, which are performed worldwide. In 2010 and 2011 he was a professor at Arizona
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After studying musicology, Petermann came to the Central House of Culture, where he was initially tasked with setting up a department for folk dance. This eventually developed through his dedicated collecting and research activities into the Tanzarchiv Leipzig. Thus, Petermann’s estate also reveals the history of the Tanzarchiv. His correspondence with the Central House for Folk Art, the Academy of Arts as well as dancers and dance institutions in Germany and abroad testifies to his important role in the political-cultural life of the GDR. The Petermann collection also provides insights into a creative, restless personality who was always developing new
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The Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. association, in cooperation with the Institute of Theatre Studies and the Leipzig University Library, promotes the accessibility and research of the Tanzarchiv’s collection holdings. With events, publications, and artistic projects, the work of the association aims in particular at the public communication of the collections as well as the topics and questions connected with them in various contexts. The cultural heritage of dance in Germany is distributed among many memorial institutions, archives and collections, most of which are united in the Association of German Dance Archives where they also pursue joint projects. Applications for membership and
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